You Don't Say!

This year's theme is cartoons without words, featuring the artists who inspired the pantomime cartoon, and the cartoonists who helped it bloom. Although the art form was used centuries earlier, pantomime cartoons flourished starting in mid-nineteenth century Europe, with trail blazing cartoonists Rudolphe Topffer, Wilhelm Busch, Cham, and the Ally Sloper group shaping the modern cartoon phenomenon. America's contribution to comic art a few decades later helped bring about a golden age of cartooning.